From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mute key on older Thinkpads by OSI blacklisting them Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:16:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20100424211601.GA16731@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1272062884.1594.73.camel@laptop> <20100424160114.GA13867@srcf.ucam.org> <1272142178.1839.138.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:54526 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752335Ab0DXVQG (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:16:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1272142178.1839.138.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jerone Young Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 03:49:38PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > The issue is the way Windows does it is through a userspace daemon. By > making it OSI=Linux (just as with the Thinkpads currently already in > blacklist.c ..*61 line) the machines just send the OS a key press. And how does that userspace daemon receive the event? > Since newer thinkpads as well as most other OEM machines take this > model. It provides a much better user experience then what it is like > today. It's a model-specific quirk in generic code, so it's massively desirable to avoid this especially since it encourages other OEMs to do the same kind of thing. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org